Jim Crow Laws

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Jim Crow Laws

• Caryn Hernandez
• Karen Harriger
• Fernanda Navarro

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The Creation of Jim Crow

• The word Jim Crow is from the minstrel show
  song Jump Jim Crow.
• Written in 1829 and sang by Thomas Dartmouth
  Rice, a white originator of blackface
  performance.
• Jim Crow became a character in minstrel shows
  everywhere which were comedy shows consisting of
  many acts about blacks in the South.

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Early History

• Congress wanted to protect African Americans
  rights by passing the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
  to the U.S. constitution during the
  Reconstruction period.
• Southern legislators then passed the short-lived
  Black Codes which returns newly freed slaves back
  to slavery legally.

• After the Reconstruction, Southern governments
  passed The Jim Crow Laws that allowed racial
  segregation and prevented black people from doing
  activities the white people could do.

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Jim Crow Laws

• Jim Crow Laws enforced segregation and these are
  a few examples
• Intermarriage-all marriages between a white
  person and a negro were prohibited.
• Juvenile delinquents- white boys and negro boys
  had separate buildings and could not associate.
• Parks-colored people could not go to white
  peoples parks and vice-versa.

• Facilities- white and black people could not use
  the same facilities including water fountains,
  restrooms, schools, restaurants, libraries,
  lockers, and forms of transportation.

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Segregation

• The Jim Crow Laws made Southern Blacks afraid
  of white people because they would be cruel to
  the African Americans.
• During the Wilson Administration, Wilson at first
  promised African Americans that they would have
  equal rights as white people, but he went back on
  his word and took away rights.

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Protest!

• William E. B. Du Bois believed that African
  Americans should be given their constitutional
  rights because they were American citizens.
• National Association for the advancement of
  colored people-founded in 1909 main voice for
  colored peoples defence.

• Black people didnt wish to except the Jim Crow
  Laws so they protested.
• Ida B. Wells, a journalist and a former school
  teacher, protested against lynching in March of
  1892 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Enforcing Segregation

• African Americans were succeeding and that
  irritated the whites.
• This jealousy erupted in a vicious illegal war
  against Southern blacks.
• During this time the whites started the Klu Klux
  Klan, a secret society of white Southerners that
  terrorized blacks
• As a result thousands of African Americans were
  lynched, brutalized, and terrorized

• The government made efforts to stop the KKK, but
  so many were involved they gave up on stopping it.

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Escaping Jim Crow Laws

• African Americans made all-black towns in Kansas
  and Oklahoma the 1880s and 1890s.
• In their communities they organized self
  associations such as social clubs, and life
  insurance programs.
• African Americans would sing and tell stories
  mocking the whites in their presence.

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The Decline of the Jim Crow Laws

• There were many law suits in the Supreme Court
  that led to the decline of the Jim crow Laws.
• The Civil Rights Movements began when Rosa Parks
  refused to give up her seat for a white person
  even though it was against the law.

• In 1964 and 1965 the blacks finally achieved
  their rights when the Civil Rights Act and the
  Voting Rights Acts were passed. The African
  Americans got the rights they deserved as U.S.
  citizens.

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Works Cited Page

• Jim Crow Laws, 5 Jan. 98
• Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park
  Interpretive Staff 28 Nov. 05
• http//www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.ht
  m
• Jim Crow Laws 28 Nov. 05
• Wikipedia, The free encyclopedia 28 Nov. 05
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_law
• Creating Jim Crow
• The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. 05
• http//jimcrowhistory.org/history/creating/htm
• Segregation in the U.S. Government
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow 28 Nov. 05
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories
  events_segregation.html

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Works Cited Page, Cont.

• Surviving Jim Crow
• The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. 05
• http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/surviving.ht
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• Resisting Jim Crow
• The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. 05
• http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/resisting.ht
  m
• Escaping Jim Crow
• The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. 05
• http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/escaping.htm
  
• The Transition from Segregation to Civil Rights
• The History of Jim Crow 28 Nov. 05
• http//www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/transition.h
  tm